Orlinda is a tiny city located in the state of Tennessee. With a population of 981 people and just one neighborhood, Orlinda is the 281st largest community in Tennessee. Much of the housing stock in Orlinda was built relatively recently. The construction of new real estate can often be taken as an indication that the local Orlinda economy is robust, and that jobs or other amenities are attracting an influx of new residents. This seems to be the case in Orlinda, where the median household income is $84,643.00.
Orlinda real estate is some of the most expensive in Tennessee, although Orlinda house values don't compare to the most expensive real estate in the U.S.
Unlike some cities, Orlinda isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Orlinda are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Orlinda is a city of managers, professionals, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Orlinda who work in management occupations (25.61%), business and financial occupations (11.05%), and office and administrative support (7.72%).
Of important note, Orlinda is also a city of artists. Orlinda has more artists, designers and people working in media than 90% of the communities in America. This concentration of artists helps shape Orlinda’s character.
It is a fairly quiet city because there are relatively few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. (Children, for example, often can't help themselves from being noisy, and being parents ourselves, we know!) Orlinda has relatively few families with children living at home, and is quieter because of it. Renters and college students, for their own reasons, can also be noisy. Orlinda has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Orlinda than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Orlinda may be for you.
In Orlinda, however, the average commute to work is quite long. On average, people spend 39.99 minutes each day getting to work, which is significantly higher than the national average.
The percentage of adults in Orlinda with college degrees is slightly lower than the national average of 21.84% for all communities. 16.20% of adults in Orlinda have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Orlinda in 2022 was $41,522, which is wealthy relative to Tennessee, and upper middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $166,088 for a family of four. However, Orlinda contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Orlinda home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Orlinda residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Orlinda include Irish, English, German, Scottish, and Scots-Irish.
The most common language spoken in Orlinda is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and African languages.
The way a neighborhood looks and feels when you walk or drive around it, from its setting, its buildings, and its flavor, can make all the difference. This neighborhood has some really cool things about the way it looks and feels as revealed by NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research. This might include anything from the housing stock to the types of households living here to how people get around.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Scottish and French Canadian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 5.3% of this neighborhood's residents have Scottish ancestry and 2.8% have French Canadian ancestry.
How wealthy a neighborhood is, from very wealthy, to middle income, to low income is very formative with regard to the personality and character of a neighborhood. Equally important is the rate of people, particularly children, who live below the federal poverty line. In some wealthy gated communities, the areas immediately surrounding can have high rates of childhood poverty, which indicates other social issues. NeighborhoodScout's analysis reveals both aspects of income and poverty for this neighborhood.
The neighbors in the neighborhood in Orlinda are upper-middle income, making it an above average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 67.5% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 6.9% of the children seventeen and under living in this neighborhood are living below the federal poverty line, which is a lower rate of childhood poverty than is found in 58.9% of America's neighborhoods.
The old saying "you are what you eat" is true. But it is also true that you are what you do for a living. The types of occupations your neighbors have shape their character, and together as a group, their collective occupations shape the culture of a place.
In the neighborhood, 36.1% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is manufacturing and laborer occupations, with 32.0% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (21.9%), and 10.0% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 97.8% of households.
Boston's Beacon Hill blue-blood streets, Brooklyn's Orthodox Jewish enclaves, Los Angeles' Persian neighborhoods. Each has its own culture derived primarily from the ancestries and culture of the residents who call these neighborhoods home. Likewise, each neighborhood in America has its own culture – some more unique than others – based on lifestyle, occupations, the types of households – and importantly – on the ethnicities and ancestries of the people who live in the neighborhood. Understanding where people came from, who their grandparents or great-grandparents were, can help you understand how a neighborhood is today.
In the neighborhood in Orlinda, TN, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (12.2%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (10.1%), and residents who report German roots (7.2%), and some of the residents are also of Scottish ancestry (5.3%), along with some French Canadian ancestry residents (2.8%), among others.
How you get to work – car, bus, train or other means – and how much of your day it takes to do so is a large quality of life and financial issue. Especially with gasoline prices rising and expected to continue doing so, the length and means of one's commute can be a financial burden. Some neighborhoods are physically located so that many residents have to drive in their own car, others are set up so many walk to work, or can take a train, bus, or bike. The greatest number of commuters in neighborhood spend between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (31.4% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (84.9%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. In addition, quite a number also carpool with coworkers, friends, or neighbors to get to work (6.4%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.